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	OBC - easyFairs Maintec
	Jan-Feb 2009
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	Clear the Air
	Contents
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	Talking Shop Like many of you who begin your day reading, watching or listening to the news, I sometimes barely make it to the beginning of the working day as my head is reeling from the barrage of conflicting information I?ve already endured.
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	Gem Steam Traps are Star Performers for Kraft over Variable Load Thermal Energy International Inc?s GEM? Venturi orifice steam traps are minimising steam loss at Kraft Foods site in Banbury. Fitted to heat exchangers, air heater batteries and distribution lines, the GEM Steam Traps are operating over variable loads.
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	And a Low Cost Thermal Imager from Micro-Epsilon The thermoMETER PI (Process Imager) is a rugged, inline, infrared thermal imaging camera, which is not only comparable in terms of technical specification and performance to the latest inline thermal imagers on the market, but is around 60% of the cost.
	Two New Thermal Imaging Cameras Join the Marketplace This new camera is designed with all the tools needed for today?s industrial Predictive Maintenance programmes.
	Carbon Trust Calls for Switch to Biomass Businesses and public sector organisations could benefit by switching from oil, gas and electric heating to biomass, according to Biomass Heating, A Practical Guide, published by the Carbon Trust (download a copy at www.carbontrust.co.uk/biomass).
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	Keep an eye on all your equipment
	Legionella Awareness The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), is holding a free, half day Legionella Awareness seminar (Birmingham 27th March 2009) to communicate information about risks from Legionella bacteria in aqueous surface pre-treatment processes.
	Maintenance North West Make a note in your diary NOW to attend MAINTENANCE NORTH WEST at the University of Manchester?s Chancellors Conference Centre on 2 June 2009.
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	I'd Like To Think I Have Contributed To Raising Maintenance Standards As many a maintenance manager knows, it can be a challenge maintaining the tools and machinery so important to your company to efficiently deliver the best value for your customers while staying compliant with the relevant Health and Safety legislation.
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	See Page 6 - I'd Like To Think I Have Contributed To Raising Maintenance Standards
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	Substantial Cost Saving Potential By Selecting The Right Drive System A wide range of industrial plants in water treatment, food and pharmaceutical sectors, use a variety of belt driven air handling equipment.
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	Increase your profit
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	IR-Fusion: Now put problems clearly in the picture
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	See Page 8 - Substantial Cost Saving Potential By Selecting The Right Drive System
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	A comprehensive business system for facilities and maintenance management
	Maintenance software just got easier
	Easy CMMS
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	Back to Basics on Improving Maintenance Productivity This column describes some of the basic building blocks needed for improving maintenance productivity. Maintenance management must understand these concepts thoroughly, and sell top management on their application.
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	The Business Impact of Enterprise Asset Management - Best Practice We all want to get it right. For most of us, it?s one of the first things we can remember, that applause from an adoring mother as we finally manage to pile three bricks on top of each other.
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	See page 14 - The Business IMPACT of Enterprise Asset Management
	Totally transforming....the way you manage your plant
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	Vibration Analysis Training
	Vibration Problems?
	Pirana CMMS
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	See Page 14 - The Business IMPACT of Enterprise Asset Management
	Precision shaft alignment pays
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	Maintenance Strategies for Oils and Lubricants Viewed by too many for too long in industry as just another operating cost, maintenance looks set to play a far more important role in the future economic health of manufacturing companies. As the global ?credit crunch? rapidly turns into a ?capital crunch?, declining levels of investment in new capital equipment will focus attention on maintenance strategies aimed at reducing downtime and maximising the efficiency of existing equipment.
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	The Greasomatic '96 Automatic Lubricator
	Automatic Lubricators
	Performance you can trust
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	Artesis MCM - Advanced Technology for Simple, Effective Condition Monitoring
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	New easyFairs MAINTEC Summit Conference Attracts Industry Experts The keynote speaker line-up for a new Summit Conference at easyFairs? MAINTEC 2009 has now been confirmed ? and it features some of the UK?s foremost authorities on asset management and maintenance issues.
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	See Page 21 - New easyFairs MAINTEC Summit Conference Attracts Industry Experts
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	Vibration Monitoring You Can Rely On Monitran, who manufacture sensors for measuring vibration and displacement, has established Monitran Technology as its formal R&D arm. The new company will design innovative products that exploit the use of new materials and technologies, particularly where joint ventures or knowledge transfer partnerships are involved
	For ALL your temperature measurement applications...
	See More With the Testo 880 Thermal Imager
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	Over 80% of hydraulic component failures are caused by dirty oil
	Increase efficiency with our leading overall equipment effectiveness
	Sensors that protect your plant...
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	Cutting Maintenance Costs - Safely Maintenance has historically been the Cinderella department. When any cut-back has been required, the axe can be expected to fall there pretty quickly. A common response in industry is to stop or severely curtail planned preventive maintenance (PM).
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	See Page 25 - Cutting Maintenance Costs - Safely
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	Santon Circuit Breaker Services
	Improved reliability.....at your fingertips
	Your One Stop Shop For Engineering Excellence
	Reduce downtime costs!
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	Maintenance North West - First Announcement The event comprises a one-day conference with technical papers and case studies by some of the UK?s leading Condition Monitoring, CMMS and Lubrication suppliers, supported by Maintenance Strategy Implementation specialists.
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	Your inefficient Motors are Wasting Money
	Gearbox Repairs
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	Industry's preferred partner is back at Maintec
	Cuts Costs Whilst Increasing Safety
	VisIR 640 Infrared Vision
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	See Page 28 - Maintenance North West
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	Your complete chemical solution
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	Maintenance and Asset Management Editorial Call it by a high-sounding name if you must ? Terotechnology, Physical Asset Management ? but there is no doubt that there are few more down-to-earth tasks than Maintenance. Coping with ?the tyranny of things? *, their fragilities, complexities, uncertainties and sometimes downright cussedness (not to mention the vagaries of the people involved), it usually calls for knowledge and judgement that can only be acquired through service in the workplace and not through the textbook or lecture room.
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	Stop Your Fretting
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	Turbo-Machinery Tip-Timing Comes of Age The complexity of a gas turbine makes its maintenance something of a black art. However, the advent of non-contact tip-timing systems has made it possible to assess turbine blade health and implement condition-based predictive maintenance routines.
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	See Page 35 - Turbo-Machinery Tip-Timing Comes of Age
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	See Page 35 - Turbo-Machinery Tip-Timing Comes of Age
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	See Page 35 - Turbo-Machinery Tip-Timing Comes of Age
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	See Page 35 - Turbo-Machinery Tip-Timing Comes of Age
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	See Page 35 - Turbo-Machinery Tip-Timing Comes of Age
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	Perfect for industrial maintenance and utilities applications...
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	Healthcare and Maintenance There are many similarities between the prevention of illness in humans, and the prevention of failures in equipment. The history of healthcare is examined through the prism of the maintenance engineer, and commonalities are identified which provide some food for thought.
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	See Page 42 - Healthcare and Maintenance
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	See Page 42 - Healthcare and Maintenance
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	Infrared Training
	Reduced Costs + Increased Efficiency + Decresed Downtime = Enhanced Profits
	Ensure your plant is working as reliably, as productively and as cost effectively as possible
	Value Driven Maintenance - The Book
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	Product Review - Shenyang Machine Tool Distributorship J&P Group have been appointed as UK distributor for Shenyang Machine Tool Group of China (SMTCL) ? one of the world?s largest manufacturers of machine tools, with an impressive portfolio of more than 300 machine tool products, ranging from CNC lathes through to heavy-duty gantry type machines.
	Product Review - Megger Makes Insulation Testing Safe for Industry Megger?s new MIT400-rangeof insulation testers, with their Category IV 600V rating in line with IEC61010, comes in four industrial versions.
	Product Review - Free Thermal Imaging DVD and CD Fluke is offering a free Thermal Imaging InfoPack which includes an overview of Fluke?s thermography tools, a ?Thermal imaging in industrial applications? DVD, a CD packed with Application Notes and a full version of SmartView? 2.0 software - featuring the industry?s first 3D imaging capability.
	Product Review - New Labfacility Wall Chart for Thermocouple & Platinum Resistance Thermometry The new International Standards for industrial platinum resistance temperature sensor tolerances are shown in a New Wall Chart which is available free of charge from Labfacility.
	Product Review - Titan Oiler ATS Electro-Lube (UK) Ltd has now added to their range a self-contained automatic lubricator specifically designed for use with oil.
	Product Review - News & Environmental Award & Pump Audit Helps Reduce Energy Costs Grundfos Pumps have been offering their customers various tools to assist them to make specific pump selections via their web site for over a decade.
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	J&P Group....maintaining excellence
	The X-Tended Life Ballscrew Range
	The Right Connection for Stainless Hygienic Fittings:
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	Product Review - Condition Tracker Enhance your predictive maintenance, CM, and calibration management requirements with Idhammar?s Condition Tracker (CT), which can be fully integrated with any CMMS to support both Maintenance and Calibration Specialists
	Product Review - Additional Features for 880 Range of Thermal Imaging Cameras The 880-1, from Testo, now offers an integrated digital camera and, at a price of just ?3,549, is now the highest specification thermal imager available within this price range.
	Product Review - Schaeffler and CNES at MAINTEC 2009 Schaeffler UK and Corus Northern Engineering Services, via their PRAXIS partnership, are uniquely positioned to offer the marketplace a toolbox of maintenance and condition monitoring techniques to reduce maintenance costs and increase plant availability.
	Product Review - Taking Cleaning Power To A New Level A new heavy duty multi-purpose cleaner, ROCOL Remover & Degreaser, provides powerful degreasing and cleaning performance - ideal for the removal of stubborn materials.
	Product Review - Optimising Productivity and New Multi-Function Accumulator Hydraulic actuators from Parker Hannifin are being used in a major solar power plant, Nevada Solar One. Parker Hannifin has launched a range of accumulator safety blocks.
	Product Review - IBM Tivoli Maximo 7.1 Maximo? is built on a single software platform and delivers a comprehensive view of all asset types ? production, facilities, transportation, oil & gas, IT and now linear in Version 7 ? across your enterprise.
	Product Review - New Web Access for Oil Analysis Service PCMS Engineering Ltd, originator?s of the successful Managed Oil Analysis Service (MOAS), are pleased to announce a new web-based front-end for clients, which covers the analysis and interpretation of oil samples and enables multiple-user access to results and information stored in firewall-secured data compartments.
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	Intelligent Maintenance
	Pocket VibrA Vibration analysis made easy!
	Enhance your performance through your people
	For press-formed valves and diverters
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	Waste Not, Want Not - Does Anyone Want Our Waste? There appears to be a crisis developing in the world of recycling, especially if you take at face value much of what has recently appeared in the national and local media. In short, it is claimed that the demand by manufacturers at home and overseas has significantly decreased leading to a huge reduction in the value of many recycled goods. Key examples cited include aluminium which is now worth half its value compared to only a few months ago whereas steel, paper and plastics have become practically worthless.
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	Dunphy Combustion Services from concept to commissioning
	Global Solutions, Local Delivery
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	Energy Efficient Steam Boilers
	Promotional Caps & Clothing
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	Five Top Tips To Reduce Energy Consumption In the current economic climate, reducing energy consumption is an excellent way to cut costs. It will also contribute to reducing emissions, an important consideration for those businesses who have to address emission reduction as part of participation in schemes such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, Climate Change Levy and soon, the Carbon Reduction Commitment.
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	Product Review - Burner Controls Certified for Use in Sil.3 Loop The Energy Technology & Control 6000 range of integrated burner controllers, fuel air ratio controllers and ancillary equipment, that includes dedicated servo motors and process sensors
	Product Review - Hamworthy Heats the Royal Institution The Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI) has reopened after a ?22 million, two and a half year refurbishment.
	Product Review - Little and Large Wellman Robey have recently supplied Industrial Packaged Boilers that represent both their large volume steam and the smaller range of hot-water units.
	Product Review - New Compressed Air Dryers The introduction of the new Ultrapac Range from Donaldson, means users of heatless adsorption dryers can now benefit from reduced energy
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	With Tough Times Ahead - It's Time To Drive-Up Your Efficiency John Lawton, Director of Marketing at EnerSys Motive Power Europe, explains what operational solutions should be on your warehouse management agenda.
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	New Workplace Air Quality Guidance From HSE The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) are the latest in a long line of COSHH regulations, originating in 1988 and first coming into force on 1st October 1989. They were made under the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and replaced previous regulations relating to workplace exposure to airborne contaminants.
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	Providing Practical Engineering Skills Training For Industry
	Dust and Fume Extraction Hoses from Masterflex
	Pressure without the Pressure...
	doseBadge The original wireless noise dosemeter
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	Seeing The Light You know the time is up for high energy and even ordinary domestic light bulbs when your energy provider posts you an unsolicited box of low energy replacements with its latest apology for having to raise the cost of your electricity. If the savings are increasingly viable for the average home user with their limited number of light bulbs, then how much more so for those businesses and industries with significantly higher levels of light usage?
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	See Page 58 - Seeing The Light
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	Hazardous Goods Handling: Nanotechnology
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	Day release not an option? Convert your experience into qualifications
	Two Pipes...Two Screws...Two Minutes
	You'll Buy It Because....Then You'll Wonder How You Ever Did Without It!
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	Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulations..... It is possible that a minority of companies could fall into the definition of ?manufacturing or importing? or even in the ?recovering of materials from waste? so you are asked the following. The green text links give you the titles of the web links that contain clear indications of what you should do. If all else fails ring the H&SE help line given in the web links.
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	Duty of Care - Better Safe Than Sorry The Act, which amended Section 33 of the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) raises the maximum penalties that can be imposed in the lower courts from ?5,000 to ?20,000.
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	Product Review - Lean and Fit Ciba takes Lean Engineering seriously, which is why their policy of continuous improvement and waste minimisation led them to invest in reverse osmosis from ELGA Process Water.
	Product Review - Safety Benefits of 'Smart' Lights Dialight?s semiconductor-based LEDBright luminaires are built for frequent switching off/on, unlike traditional lights, so they remove the need for 24/7 safety lighting.
	Product Review - Comprehensive Noise Measurement Kit Cirrus Research plc is offering a simple and comprehensive option for Noise at Work and Environmental Noise monitoring solutions; the CK:821C Sound Level Meter Kit.
	Product Review - You can teach an old dog new tricks Many Health, Safety and Environmental issues require a ?Competent Person? to manage them.
	Product Review - Service Focus Richard Spires reflects on the scope of the new Service Division of BEKO Technologies: ?We offer advice on energy saving and our on-site energy services include full leak surveys, flow metering/data logging, dewpoint analysis and oil content monitoring.
	Product Review - Engineers Re-Train Engineers feeling the pinch of the credit crunch should seriously consider transferring their skills to emerging sectors, according to leading recruitment specialist ATA.
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	Think Foam. Think Polyformes.
	Simplify Pipe Joining
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	Product Review - Air/Gas Leak Detection At the press of a button ? GOTEC LDS is instantly ready to locate the smallest low pressure leaks from compressed air and every other gas ? quickly, reliability, safely and conveniently.
	Product Review - Safety-In Seconds A metal packaging manufacturer decided to improve safety on its factory floor by applying a new traffic marking system, and RapidShield UV-curable floor coating technology from Quaker Chemical Co was the chosen solution.
	Product Review - Sara Polarises Industrial Doors sara Loading Bay Specialists has been looking after the loading bay and door requirements of Polartech in Manchester ? a leading name in metalworking fluids.
	Product Review - Lambert to Spearhead Sales Drive for Netlon TDP, recently appointed UK distributor for Netlon Industrial Products (an innovative range of thermoplastic meshes and nets for the manufacturing, engineering and industrial markets) has appointed Chris Lambert as technical sales manager.
	Product Review - Densoclad 70 Protects Underground Gas Storage Pipework and Seashield Protection Over 20km of pipeline are being used at Stublach in Cheshire to connect natural gas storage cavities that have been formed by the extraction of brine.
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	Product Review - Swagelok Company Names Regional Director The Swagelok Company has announced the appointment of Deric Wallace as regional director, Europe ? a role in which he will be responsible for all aspects of business development, sales and service support within the region.
	Product Review - Ryanair Choose Woodcon Woodcon, the specialist manufacturer of Maintenance Planning Systems, has recently fully merged with their parent company, Display Developments, in their 40,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Erith, Kent.
	Product Review - Atex Rated Air Bench WorkPoint are pleased to announce their new air bench. AirBench ATEX is designed specifically for use in potentially explosive dust atmospheres while providing the same high standards of breathing protection that users have come to expect from the UK?s leading supplier of downdraught benches.
	Product Review - Keytracker at MAINTEC 2009 See Keytracker at MAINTEC (NEC, 17-19 March, 2009) and find out how their cost- effective key management solutions can benefit your business.